It is odd, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. I burst immediately into indignant speech.
They say all the world loves a lover – apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.
Sensationalism dies quickly – fear is long-lived.
However deep you bury an unpleasantness a dog will always root it up again.
Even the most sober of us is liable to have his head turned by success.
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: They distract the mind from food!
With precision of the fingers goes precision of the brain.
When you find that people are not telling you the truth – look out!
When do you notice an individual murder least? When it is one of a series of related murders.
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.
